Valora Holding AG announced that Thomas Eisele, the long-standing CEO of Food Service, is leaving the company at his own request at the end of June 2024. This has created the opportunity to give direct sales (B2C) and wholesales (B2B) independent structures for sustainable growth. With Sebastian Kayser, the new CEO of Food Service B2C, and Sebastian Gooding, the new CEO of Food Service B2B, two experienced internal managers will join Valora's expanded Leadership Team on 1 July 2024.

Thomas Eisele, current CEO of Food Service, is leaving Valora at his own request at the end of June 2024 to take on new professional challenges following the successful development of the Food Service business and the completion of Valora's integration into the FEMSA Group. Sebastian Gooding, CEO of Food Service B2B (from 1 July 2024) Sebastian ("Seb") Gooding (42) has English and German citizenship. He joined the Valora Group in 2019 as the Managing Director of Production/B2B at the Ditsch pretzel bakery.

In this role, he is responsible for both Europe and the Ditsch USA business. Prior to that, he was with the Swiss convenience bakery group Aryzta, where he held various roles at Aryzta's business units in several European countries and served as CEO of Central & Eastern Europe from 2015 to 2018. He launched his professional career in 2003 as a finance graduate at the international food manufacturer Kerry Group in Ireland.

Sebastian Kayser, CEO of Food Service B2C (from 1 July 2024) Sebastian Kayser (42) is a German citizen and since 2023 has served as Managing Director of Valora's Food Service Germany business unit, which operates over 600 stores in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands with its core BackWerk and Ditsch formats. Before joining Valora, he worked for YUM! Brands, where he drove the expansion of the KFC restaurants in the DACH region and Denmark, and most recently managed KFC's operations in these markets as its General Manager.

From 2015 to 2020, he held various management positions within the REWE Group in Germany and Austria. Prior to that, he spent four years managing projects at Boston Consulting Group that were focused on growth strategies and transformation.